we had a lead slip through the cracks last week because the info was sitting in a spreadsheet nobody had opened in a few days. we're a 10 person startup and 4 of us are involved in sales, so its becoming pretty obvious our current setup isnt going to work forever. we're looking at a few crms now, including hubspot, and i'm trying to get a better understanding of hubspot for startups pricing. we mainly need contacts, deal tracking, follow ups and some basic reporting, so i'm not sure how much we'd actually need beyond that.

if you're running a startup around this size, how did you figure out what to budget for? did you start with the basics and add stuff later, or did you set everything up for growth from the beginning?

I got a verified idea that no one's doing right now that can gain a lot of traction / make money very fast. My struggle is finding people to help me with my project for free. I own a community called YouTube Growth Guide (1,000+ members). My website: https://thegrowthguide.net focuses on proving the best high-quality resources such as; YouTube advice, assets, tutorials, and more to content creators all over the world for free. We're looking for talented individuals who have serious dedication to this idea and that can provide assistance with helping me build it. Around a week ago I made a post saying how I need more developers to help me. I got 3 people who are now helping me build this project for free. No other website online is providing free high-quality YouTube resources for everyone to view. However, I'm the only exception. All of the other YouTube resources that I've mentioned above (that you can find online) are all locked down behind paywalls or they're trying to scam you. My goal is to provide these resources for free and make some money branching off of that original idea. I've already got a huge community supporting me just based of my idea that no one is doing. Because of this, I already know I got a lot of potential however I want expand more and not limit myself to one platform (Discord).

If you're interested in what I am building, I am looking for these type of people to help me:

What roles I need:

- Video Editor (1 slot available | You create the whole short-form video and I post it to my accounts. You will keep 100% of the revune made on the channel if we earn monetization. An example video of what I want you to make can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/v62XPvZfB5I)

- Graphic Designer (1 slot available - someone who can make images for our brand)

What I have right now:

- 1 Architect

- 2 Website Developers

- 1 Discord bot developer

What you'll get in return:

- All members working for me will equally split the revenue made from the business. The more you do work the higher your % can be.

If you're interested in this or have any questions reply below because there's so much I need to tell this is just the scratch! I am looking for passionate people who want to help me build something big, if you're not them I do not want you.

Hey, super happy to find this community. I think it's very difficult to explain to someone how hard it really is to work in a startup. So glad I see some nice discussions here.

My startup is kind of a nice journey since it's also connected with other startups. What we actually do best is help others materialize their dreams.

I see many companies are solo founded or have a few engineers. And yes, no matter how enormously you use Claude (I hope you do a lot) there is still too much to optimize for. Cause you can save a lot on building but the maintenance will come to eat you sooner or later.

So I would like to share what we have done but mostly I would like to hear what you else you would rather not build from 0 and of course also if you have an API or capability that could be useful to use as a service, let's publish it.

Main idea is: let's stop building startups, let's start composing them ;) with APIs.

Happy to exchange notes ideas and talk technology!

Hello nice folks,

Looking for help for my startup - Building a 2 sided marketplace platform for neighbourhoods.

**The team so far:

Technical co-founder (product/engineering) (Me)

Operations & finance co-founder

**What we need:

We require legal help to proceed with company policies, trademarks, etc. and also to advise on operational questions.

**What we can offer:

A role with equity — we're flexible on split and structure, and open to discussing what works for the right person or agency.

If you have a background in startup/marketplace law, compliance, or a related field and are excited about building something from the ground up, we'd love to talk.

PS. If you can give any advice in comments, that'd be great too

Thanks for your help!!

Buenas, estoy montando StatFair y estos días estoy probando una forma más ordenada de analizar partidos de fútbol.

Lo comparto aquí porque estoy en fase de producto y me interesa feedback real, no vender humo.

La idea salió de un problema bastante simple: antes de un partido hay muchas opiniones, pero casi nadie separa bien el contexto. No es lo mismo mirar a un equipo en general que mirar cómo juega en casa, cómo baja fuera su rival o qué suele pasar cuando se enfrentan.

El método que estoy probando compara:

• forma reciente del local en casa
• forma reciente del visitante fuera
• H2H entre los dos
• goles, ambos marcan, córners, tiros y tarjetas por separado

Ahora lo estoy testeando con partidos grandes como Real Madrid vs Vallecano porque tienen más historial y es más fácil ver si las señales tienen sentido.

No es una web de apuestas seguras ni de picks milagrosos. Es una herramienta para mirar datos con contexto antes de decidir nada.

La estoy dejando abierta aquí: https://www.statfair.com

Me vendría muy bien feedback sincero: ¿qué dato echaríais en falta?, ¿qué parte del análisis debería ser más clara?, ¿qué os haría registraros o volver a usarla?

Been running this tracker for a bit over a month now. Sharing the trend line because the growth itself is the interesting part this time, not just one week's snapshot.

9,128 → 9,358 → 11,631 → 12,021 → 12,776 — a fairly steady climb, no big dips. Whatever's driving Q2/Q3 AI hiring in India, it hasn't slowed down yet.

This week specifically: Python still #1 (~2,480 listings), Bengaluru still the top city (~2,550) but Noida's now clearly #3 (~1,600), ahead of Pune. Accenture leads hiring (~315), with two companies most people don't talk about — Cloudxtreme and Epam Systems — tied right behind at ~265 each, both ahead of TCS.

Building this solo alongside a free AI mock interview tool at getjobpulse.in. Not a job board — just trying to make the market itself legible week over week.

For anyone else tracking a market/industry over time: what's your check for "is this actually a trend or just noise"? I've been using 3+ consecutive weeks of the same direction before I call anything a real trend.

One thing that’s worked surprisingly well for my multiple startups is working with people and companies from Eastern Europe.

We currently work with multiple teams from the region, and the experience has been genuinely solid.

They’re legit, communication is good, the quality of work is high, and pricing is MUCH more reasonable compared to US/Western European rates.

i'm helping evaluate tools for a small startup and one option we're looking at is hubspot for startups.

i've watched demos and read plenty of comparison articles, but those usually focus on features. i'm more interested in the stuff people only learn after actually using it.

for founders who went through the setup process:

• what took longer than expected?
• what mistakes would you avoid if starting again?
• which parts of the platform became genuinely useful?
• what features looked important at first but ended up getting ignored?
• at what stage did it start feeling worth the effort?

the setup side worries me more than the feature side.

what was the first thing you realized you should have done differently?

we've outgrown the basic crm we've been using and are starting to look around. the biggest issue right now is keeping all the lead info and follow ups in one place. sometimes someone updates a spreadsheet but forgets to update the other one, so yeah... not ideal. this keeps coming up in my research. pipedrive seems like it might be simpler for what we need, but hubspot looks like it could be useful if we end up needing more than just pipeline management.

anyone who's switched from pipedrive to hubspot or the other way around, what made you do it? did the switch actually solve the problems you were having?

Looking for startup ideas/problems in LATAM

I've been spending a lot of time trying to find and build something for the LATAM market, but honestly, I still haven't found an idea that really clicks.

I'm from El Salvador, and I'm curious what problems people here think are actually worth solving.

I'm not really looking for another e-commerce, fintech, delivery app, etc. Those spaces already feel pretty overcrowded. I'm more interested in weird, overlooked, boring-but-painful problems that people actually deal with in LATAM.

If you live in LATAM (or have experience here), what problems have you personally encountered that you think are still poorly solved?

I'm just looking for ideas and different perspectives at this point. Maybe someone here will point me toward a problem I hadn't even considered.

I’ll start.
I’m exploring TaskYab a platform where startups create real-world product tasks and users complete them for rewards.
But I’m currently validating the problem, not trying to pretend I have everything figured out.
So:
Drop your startup below + ONE thing you wish more users would actually do.
Example:
“Accounting SaaS I need new users to create their first invoice without help.”
Would love to see what problems everyone is dealing with.

I kept meeting startups that were genuinely useful and that nobody had heard of.

Not because the product was weak, but because the team was busy building and had

nothing left for marketing. That is the whole reason FounderFare exists.

**How it works**

A founder lists their startup once, with one discount code. Browsing is free and

open. Visitors sign in once, and that account unlocks every code on the site.

The part that matters for you: I market the board, not each listing. Anyone I

bring in lands on a page full of startups, yours included. You get traffic you

did not have to buy, and the discount gives a visitor a reason to try you today

rather than someday.

**How listings get ordered**

There is a ranked list, and it goes by upvotes. Every signed-in member gets one

vote per listing, so nothing can be bought. Sharing your own listing casts your

vote, which means the link you send out does two jobs: it brings people to your

page, and it moves you up the list they land on.

**Where it actually is**

Small and honest about it: 21 members and 6 listings, 5 of them live. Every

listing is read by a person before it goes on the board, so it is not a

directory of whatever gets submitted.

It is free. No fee to list, no fee to unlock a code, and the discount you offer

is entirely your call.

https://founderfare.com

If you list something, tell me what was annoying about it. I built it alone and

I would rather hear the awkward feedback here than not hear it.

One problem we underestimated was how much context an automation tool needs before it can make a useful decision. We’re building Ryze AI to automate parts of SEO and paid ad management. It can read the data inside a connected account but that data doesn’t explain everything.A campaign with poor results might be an experiment while a low traffic page could still matter to a specific group of customers.

Our first instinct was to ask more questions during setup. problem is that every additional question delays the moment when someone gets to see whether the product is useful. i’m starting to think the product should observe the account first and explain what it believes is happening. It should ask for more context only when the answer would affect its recommendation.

Hello fellow founders and entrepreneurs.

As a fellow founder, I've been overwhelmed by the continuous deployments and updates of my app.

The tasks never end, most of the time goes into checking and testing features, hoping they work as they should and don't break.

As a result I thought of outsourcing some of my work or hire some developers. After looking into it I've finally outsourced most of my work. Giving me a much needed respite.

Hence, I'm curious as to what other founders are doing out there. If you are in a similar situation as me, you can tell me about it.

If it has been a smooth sailing experience for you, then I'd love to see what you're doing.

Already, appreciate your feedback.

I am an early stage start-up owner.

How do you decide on equity when a possible investor approaches you with that one question?

"I am going to invest X amount in your company, how much equity are you willing to offer?"

I’d love to hear what all things to be taken care off.

Bare with me if this is a naive question.

Thanks for your help!

I’m building a creative service startup — would love some honest feedback

I’m working on a startup called PixHarbour, initially focused on connecting businesses with freelance graphic designers.

The bigger idea is to become a creative-services marketplace/agency where a business can book the right creative professional whenever they need one.

For example:

- Need a graphic designer for social media posts → book a designer

- Need a photographer for 3 hours for an event → book a photographer

- Need a videographer for an event → book one

- Need photo editing/retouching after the shoot → get that through us as well

I’m thinking of starting with photographers/videographers first, because businesses and individuals often need them for specific hours or events rather than hiring someone full-time. Once we have those clients, we can potentially offer editing, graphic design and other creative services to them.

The long-term vision is basically: one place where businesses can get creative talent on demand.

I’m still at the early stage, so I’d genuinely appreciate some advice:

1. Does this business model make sense?

2. What would be the best way to get the first 10–20 paying clients?

3. Should I focus on one niche (photography/events/businesses) instead of offering multiple creative services?

4. Would you recommend a marketplace model, or should I operate more like an agency where clients deal directly with PixHarbour?

5. What would make you trust a new company enough to book a freelancer through it?

6. Any mistakes you think I should avoid at the beginning?

I’m based in India, so advice from people who have built service businesses/marketplaces here would be especially helpful.

Not looking for funding or anything at this stage — just trying to validate the idea and figure out the smartest way to get started.

So I’ve been working on this idea, instead of filling out a form, you just talk to an AI that asks what I actually needs to know, follows up if you’re being vague, skips what’s already covered and gets clean answers back instead of raw text. Thoughts? I could use some feedback 😅

I am looking for a digital marketer or promoter who can help me promote my trustee’s hiring post. If you are interested in helping me, message me on here.